Matt Hilbert Does NoSQL = NoDBA? There's a joke doing the rounds at SQL conferences and seminars: three DBAs walk into a NoSQL bar and leave... 21 October 2014 9 min read
Joe Celko Data Is Crazier than You Think As a society, we have an unrealistic respect for data, especially if it has a decimal point somewhere and uses... 17 October 2014 12 min read
Grzegorz Strzelecki The Role of the Technical Architect in Development What do Technical Architects (TAs) actually do when in a development role? Are they just senior developers 'pushed upstairs' into... 15 October 2014 9 min read
Tony Davis Source Code isn't sacred A recent, short article on O’Reilly.com, Before You Refactor suggests that if you think you need to rewrite code, you... 10 October 2014 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 13 – Lucky for Some What’s going on here? There appears to be a lad under cover, but what’s it all about? You have to... 10 October 2014 1 min read
Edward Charbeneau Building a Better NuGet NuGet is the standard package manager for the Microsoft development platform including .NET. It has transformed the ease of getting... 07 October 2014 7 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 12: Bakers Dozen Less One What’s going on here? There appears to be a hand, but what’s it all about? You have to tell us,... 26 September 2014 1 min read
Robert Young Ninja Immutable Databases 'Immutable' databases operate under the principle that data or objects should not be modified after they are created. Once again... 22 September 2014 13 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 11 – A Coat for all Seasons Update: Congratulations to Dimitrios Kalemis with his caption “I asked all of you to gather here today, because I have... 11 September 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis Locating business logic in applications One of the most pernicious and pervasive myths in business-application development is that all business logic must be kept from... 11 September 2014 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 10 – Double Digits Congratulations to Doug Tucker who won this week’s caption competition with: The keyboard is so last-century (just like your outfits).... 29 August 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis When you really need to know why your SQL Query’s slow It is useful to know that a SQL Query is slow, but it is even better to know why. To... 28 August 2014 3 min read
David Poole DBAs vs Developers: A Sad Tale of Unnecessary Conflict For many developers, does DBA really stand for Don't Bother Asking? David Poole thinks it is time to end the... 26 August 2014 12 min read
Richard Morris Chris Date and the Relational Model Chris Date is famous for his writings on relational theory. At IBM in the seventies, and afterwards, he was a... 22 August 2014 32 min read
Richard Morris Bjarne Stroustrup, and Programmers With Class Bjarne Stroustrup devised C++ or 'C with Classes' in 1978. It has evolved a great deal over the decades and... 19 August 2014 19 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 9: Carry on Captioning Update: Congratulations to Louis Somers who won the caption competition with “It’s all about having the right tools… Finding Bugs... 14 August 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 8 – Captions Take Manhattan Update: Congratulations to Dimitrios for winning this week’s caption competition. It’s that time again. We present a bucolic scene, you... 01 August 2014 1 min read
Tony Davis Interviews: Going Beyond the Technical Quiz All developers will be familiar with the basic format of a technical interview. After a bout of CV-trawling to gauge... 31 July 2014 3 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 7 – No Clever Subtitle Edition Update: Congratulations to WilliamII who won the caption competition on August 4 with his caption: Marketing tell me it won’t... 17 July 2014 1 min read
Simple Talk Editorial Team Caption Competition 6 – Return of the Captions Update: Congratulations to Doug Tucker who won this competition on July 21 with his caption “Murphy begins to rethink his... 02 July 2014 1 min read
